Macbeth †Study Notes †Act II Essay

1.Who accompanies Banquo at the opening of Act 2? What is his sexual relation to Banquo?Fleance is the iodin who accompanies Banquo. He is his son.2.What is Macbeths hallucination before he murders Duncan? What does this meanspirited?Macbeths hallucination is a paster which he wants to grasp barely of course he cant, and he realizes that he is seeing the dagger that he plans to use in the murder, a dagger which beckons him toward King Duncans door, and a dagger upon which appear thick drops of blood. He understands that It is the bloody commercial enterprise which informs / Thus to mine eyes (2.1.48-49), but he is non horrified. Rather, he wants to be as deadly as that dagger.3.What reason does chick Macbeth eat for not committing the murder herself?Duncan looks like a father and that is why Lady Macbeth does not want to commit the murder herself.4.Why do Duncans sons conciliate to leave Scotland?They doubted something and by leaving Scotland, theyll have a little extra sa fety, because no one testament be able to kill them both at once.5.In view 2, why couldnt Macbeth say Amen when a utter said God Bless Us?In Scene 2, Macbeth could not say Amen when a voice said God Bless US because it was part of his hallucinations.6.The images of blood and irrigate are interwoven in lines 55-68 of Scene 2. What does each suggest?It is the blood on his reach that causes this horrible fascination, and hefeels that the blood can never be washed away. Before his turn over are clean, they will make all the seas of the world turn red. The piddle usually represents being free of something, wiping away the guilt, and bringing back honour even though just metaphorically. By washing his hands with water Macbeth thought he would erase the guilt that was behind it.7.How do the herculean attitudes of Macbeth and his wife to their bloodstained hands serve to point up the raw material difference in their characters?Both Macbeth and his wife want to clean their hands by using water, but Macbeth feels as if the blood will never go away because he is really feeling guilty for the shame he committed. While his wife, Lady Macbeth thinks that the water will clean the blood, and everything will be as before.8.What is ironic about Macduffs replying to Ross question, Those that Macbeth hath slain (Line 23)?Macbeth told them already what went on, but they were still discussing it because apparently Macbeth didnt convince them much. It is ironic because Macbeth was the one who killed both King Duncan and the grooms.